Working Families e-Activist: labor's e-voice in Washington

Idea exchange
January 2003

Working Families e-Activist: labor's e-voice in Washington
The AFL-CIO says you're more powerful than you think, but only when you join together with tens of thousands of other e-activists to make your voice heard.

The Working Families e-Activist Network is one way you can do that. Network subscribers receive occasional action alerts when their voice is needed. With one click you can send a fax or e-mail to a key decision maker in Congress, at the White House, or an employer who isn't respecting the rights of workers.

In the past year, members of the Working Families e-Activist Network have made a difference. Though the president ultimately received the so-called fast track authority he sought to negotiate a hemispheric free trade agreement, a call for action from the Working Families e-Activist Network generated more than 5,000 phone calls during a National Call-In Day to try to stop fast track, and more than 17,000 e-mails and faxes were sent to Congress to oppose rolling back workers' ergonomics standard in just three days.

Some current campaigns from Working Families e-Activist Network:
Tell your represntative to restore unemployment benefits
Oppose Social Security privatization
Tell Pizza Hut to stop using Pictsweet mushrooms

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